Format
90 minutes. One skill. Immediate application.
Method
Practice-first. Real scenarios. Expert feedback.
Impact
Visible behavior change → starting next week.
What Happens When Managers Don’t Get The Support They Need?
You’ve promoted your best people into management. They’re smart, motivated, and they know the business. But the move from individual contributor to people leader is one of the hardest transitions in any organization, and most people make it without any real preparation.
The gaps show up in recognizable ways. Meetings end without clear decisions. Feedback gets avoided until it becomes a performance issue. New team members take longer to ramp than they should. Talented people leave — and when you ask why, it comes back to the manager.
This isn’t a hiring problem. It’s a skills gap. And it has a measurable cost.
Engaged employees produce better business outcomes than other employees, regardless of industry, company size or nationality, and in good economic times and bad. 70% of the variance in team-level engagement is determined solely by the manager.
– Gallup Workplace Research
50–200% of annual salary. That is the typical cost of replacing talent that leaves due to poor management.
– Gallup Workplace Research
When engagement drops, it shows up in your eNPS before it shows up anywhere else. And when it does, the root cause is almost always the same – Managers who didn’t get the skills they needed when they needed them.
90 minutes of the right practice can start closing that gap.
What Are 90 Minute Labs?
90 Minute Labs are short, practice-first leadership workshops that give managers the people skills they need to lead effectively – without pulling them away from work for days at a time.
→ Each lab focuses on one concrete skill, taught through real scenarios and expert facilitation. Online sessions are capped at 12 participants for maximum practice time. In-person sessions are tailored to your group (i.e. format, size, and duration designed around your needs). All labs are delivered in English; Spanish and Polish are available on request.
→ We start every engagement with a short discovery call to understand your team’s actual context, so what happens in the lab is relevant on Monday morning, not just during the session.
Before the Lab
A short discovery call. We learn what’s actually happening in your teams, what the current challenges are, and what success looks like for you.
During the Lab
One skill. One framework. Real practice with situations your managers recognize. Expert facilitation that creates safety to try, fail, and improve – in 90 minutes.
After the Lab
Every participant leaves with a one-page practical toolkit. No 40-slide deck. No homework. Just one tool, immediately applicable.
What Leadership Skills Do The Labs Cover?
Six sessions. One skill each. Book one to address a specific challenge, or combine into a series for lasting behavior change.
Coaching 1:1s That Drive Ownership
When managers keep solving their team’s problems, ownership never flows down. One shift in how they run 1:1s changes that dynamic.
Speak So They Can Hear You
A manager who communicates in one way will lose half of the room without ever knowing why. This lab teaches managers how to flex their style.
Feedback That Lands (And Sticks)
Small problems left unaddressed become big surprises at review time. This lab makes feedback a habit and not an event people dread.
Hybrid Teams That Work
Hybrid teams don’t fail loudly. This lab addresses the patterns that erode engagement and cohesion in distributed teams and how to counter them.
Lead Across Cultures Without Losing The Message
In global teams, the costliest misunderstandings are the ones nobody flags. This lab teaches managers to read the signals before friction sets in.
Manage Change In A People-First Way
Forced optimism and silence are the two most common responses to change. Both destroy trust. This lab gives managers a framework for change conversations that builds safety.
Learning in Action
We regularly bring 90-Minute Labs to leadership conferences and business meetups to break the “sit-and-listen” routine. The result: interactive sessions that create real dialogue, meaningful networking and learning people actually remember.
Why Do HR & People Teams Choose 90 Minute Labs?
No L&D Infrastructure Required
The labs are ready to run. No training needs analysis, no competency framework, no lengthy procurement process. A discovery call and a date in the calendar is all it takes.
Immediate, Visible Impact
Every participant leaves with one tool they can use before end of week. The change is visible to managers, their teams, and the people who commissioned the lab.
Built For International Teams
All labs are delivered in English. Spanish and Polish are available on request. The content is designed for global teams where communication style, feedback culture, and management norms vary.
Low Disruption, High Return
90 minutes. No travel. No preparation required from participants. The format that fits inside a regular day without pulling your managers away from their work.
Engagement Is a Performance Lever, Not a “Soft” Metric
Gallup’s research is unambiguous: Engagement has measurable business impact across all industries.
Highly engaged teams achieve:
23% higher profitability
Up to 51% lower turnover
78% lower absenteeism
What Does The Research Say About Leadership Quality And Employee Engagement?
Gallup consistently identifies the manager – not HR programs, perks, or policies – as the single biggest driver of employee engagement and team performance.
Managers drive 70% of the variance in team engagement and make or break the employee experience.
– Gallup Workplace Research
Who Runs The Labs?
Led by professionals with expert coaching skills and a passion for workshop facilitation.
Veronica Ambrosini
Team Dynamics Expert
- 15 Years + Experience in HR Talent
- Certified Senior Coach
- Leadership Circle Certified Coach
- Insights Discovery Practitioner
- LEGO Serious Play Facilitator
- Workshopper Master
Dagmar Glow
Leadership Coach
- 14 Years + Experience in L&D
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Certified Professional in Agile Coaching
- Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation
- Executive Coaching Practice
APA Psychological Influences
Frequently Asked Questions
A 90 Minute Lab is a live, practice-first leadership workshop focused on one people skill. It runs for 90 minutes online or in person, includes a discovery call beforehand to align on your team’s context, and ends with every participant leaving with one practical tool they can use immediately. Online sessions are capped at 12 participants.
Online labs start from €900 + VAT per session. Labs can also be booked as a two- or four-lab series, with series pricing available at a saving on the per-session rate. In-person delivery is priced based on format, group size, and location → get in touch to discuss what works for your team.
Full pricing, series options, and current introductory rates for new clients are set out in the brochure. Download it below, or reach out directly and we will walk you through the options that make sense for your situation.
No → the labs are designed specifically for organizations without dedicated L&D capacity. No competency framework, training needs analysis, or internal preparation is required. A short discovery call with us is the only step needed before the lab runs.